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A68747	The poore mans teares opened in a sermon / preached by Henrie Smith. ; Treating of almes deeds, and releeuing the poore.	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1592 (1592)	STC 22683; ESTC S117534	41,436	133

pore with their continuall almes not supersticiously to bee seene of men but secretlie to be seene of God The Lord increase the number of them and make their example redownde to the reliefe of thousands Almes is a charitable reliefe giuen by the godlie to the sick to the lame the blinde the impotent the needy the hungrie and poorest persons euen such as ar daily vexed with continuall want to whome euen of duty and not of compulsion we ought to impart some part of that which God hath mercifullie bestowed vppon vs For as we dailie seeke for benefits at gods hand which he dooth continuallie giue vs so ought vvee therwith to releeue the poore sith God hath so commaunded vs. The performance whereof we ought not to driue off from time to time but to doe it when they desire to haue it done for the true obedience of god dooth forbid vs to prolong or driue off the doing of good things as appeareth in Noah who when hee was commanded did enter the Arke Abraham when he was commāded did forthwith offer vp his son Isaake and did circūsise his house vpon the same day hee was appointed A learned writer called Naziensin saith of himselfe that when in his youth hee had once lost the tenor of good life graie hears was got about his head ere he recouered it againe whereby I gather that when we are young if we harden our harts against the pore if wee doe not willinglie impart our bread to them but driue their hungrie stomackes stubbornly from our doores that doubtlesse gray heares wil come vpon our heads before we can finde the right waie to pittie and compassion O let vs take heede that our harts be not hardened against the poore nor that wee giue our almes to get glorie of the world but so let vs giue our almes that the one hand maie not know what the other doth yea we ought to giue it with such equalitie that our poore neighbours may be releeued to whome indeede we ought to become contributors as Iob and Toby did All people haue not one bellie for as one chimnie may be hot so another may be cold One pot moyst with lickor when another may be drie one purse emptie when another is full And one poore mans belly full when an others is emptie That is a good common-wealth that looketh to euerie member in the common-wealth And those men worthie of riches that looketh daily to the feeding of their poore neighbours Let therfore the teares of the poore admonish you to charitie that when Diues hathe dined Lazarus may haue the crums Now let vs proceed and consider what we must giue and to whome we must giue in the text we are willed to giue though it be but a cup of cold water or a peece of bread this containeth matter both for the taker and the giuer Bread will serue beggers and they must be no choosers yet bread will not serue some beggers that boldly on Gads hill Shooters hill and suche places take mens horses by the heads and bids them deliuer their purses for these fellowes are of the opinion of the Anabaptists that euerie mans goods must be common to them or else they will force them to part it but these are sawsie beggers and ought to haue almes at Tiburne as for other sort of beggars and other poore persons they must be content to take vp their crosse endeuour themselues paciently to suffer their ordinarie greeuances and remember that mans nature may bee satisfied with a little As touching how much wee shall giue we are taught that if wee haue much we should giue accordingly If we haue but little giue what wee can spare S. Luke councelleth vs if we haue two Coates wee must giue one to him that hath not of meate likewise but as touching this question litle need to be spoken when our owne couetous heartes are readie enough to frame excuses Some will make a question of their almes and saie they know not what the partie is that demaundeth reliefe or beggeth almes of them O saith some I suspect he is an idle person dishonest or perhaps an vnthrift and therefore refuseth to giue anie reliefe at all To this I answere they are needlesse doubtes for we ought to releeue them if wee knowe them not for such persons And let theyr bad deedes fall on their own necks for if they perish for want we are in danger of Gods wrath for them but to giue vnto suche as wee knowe of lewd behauiour thereby to continue them in their wickednesse were verie offensiue we are not still tyed to one place for giuing our charitie but it stretcheth far for we are commanded not onely to releeue our owne countrimen but also strangers and such as dwell in forraigne nations Againe heere the giuer may learn to giue freely for the thing he giueth is but bread or water Bread is the fruite of the earth and for the earth giues it vs we may the better giue it againe But bread in this place signifieth all thing necessarie for the fare and cheere in olde time was contayned vnder the title of bread and all maner of drinke vnder the title of water but in this as in all other thinges the simplicitie of the olde world is quite gone out and newe and corrupt thinges are lately crept in In the old time Iacob desired hee might haue bread in his iourney but now the case is altered for wee must haue sundrie dishes of contrarie deuises framed for the taste of the mouth and pleasantnesse of the stomacke which is vsed with great superfluitie and farre more cost then needeth better now to fill the belly then the eye although to content the common multitude the eye is the onely thing which must be pleased Yet when you are in the midst of all your iollitie and costly fare let the teares of the poore admonishe you to releeue them that when Diues hath dined Lazarus may haue the crummes The teares of men women and children are greeuous and pitifull and teares giue cause of great compassion especially the teares of such as therewith are constrained to beg for their reliefe But if the teares of the rich for the losse of their goods or the teares of parents for the death of their children or the tears of kind natured persons for the losse of frēds or other wronges sustained ought generallie to be regarded and pitied Then much more should the teares of those breede great compassion in the hearts of christians whome beggery want and extreames of miserable hunger constraineth to sheade teares in most greeuous and lamentabe sort O what shall a man say vnto those pittiful faces which ar made moist through the extreams of hunger wherein are most bitter sharpe effects A thing aboue al extreams to a hungry bodie Euerie bitter thing is sweete and euerie fowle thing seem cleane hunger made the apostles glad to eat the eares of corne Dauid glad to eat the shewe

couenaunt in stead whereof wee haue baptisme the whiche whosoeuer shall refuse wee accompt him as cut off from Gods Church Christ Iesus gaue inuisicle grace by visible laying hys handes vppon children and other sicke people So hee gaue the gift of his holy spirite vnto his Disciples when hauing breathed vppon them he sayd receiue you the holy ghost The Sscramentes were ordayned in the church of God for 3. vses first that we should acknowledge al those to be our fellows seruants whom we see to haue put on the same liuerie with our selues and in this sense said the Apostle Paule all those that are baptized into Christe haue put on Christ Secondly the Sacramentes do put a manifest difference betwixt the true church and the false as Peter hath taught vs in saying repent and be baptized euerie one of you in the name of Iesus Christ for to vse the promise made vnto your children all that are yet farre off euen so many as God shall call and our Sauiour saith to such belongeth the kingdomof God that is to such as lead an innocent life The third vse of the Sacraments is to seale vp in the hearts of the elect all those promises which GOD hath made vnto them in Iesus Christ his Son and their Sauiour in the which sense Paule spake when hee said that Abraham receiued the sign of circumcision as a seale of that righteousnes which he had by faith and in the verie same sense our Sauiour saith hee that beleeueth and is baptized shall be saued But it is to bee considered that the Institutor setteth downe the form of administring the sacraments when he saith baptizing them in the name of the father of the sonne and of the holie Ghost Hee commaundeth to baptize in the name of the father and of the son because the holie Ghost proceedeth from the father the sonne and in the name of the holie Ghost for except a man be borne of water and the spirite he cannot see the kingdom of God When our sauior offered to wash Peters feet he imagined it to be a nedles work for thou shalt neuer wash my feet said he but when Christ aunswered that such as are not washed by him haue no part with him that is neither part of his spirite nor of his kingdom Peter bethinking himselfe better would not haue his feet onlie but also his hands aud head washed howbeit it is not necessarie to washe any more then is vncleane as Peters feet defiled vvith dirt and mire so our soules spotted with sins must be cleansed by Christ his bloud onely And after this manner it is necessarie that euerie one of vs should be washed wherof the outward putting of water vpon the partie baptized is a liuelie figure Iohn Baptist was sanctified in his mothers wombe as the Angell had foreshewed But when our Sauiour Christ came to him to be baptized Iohn put him backe and said I haue neede to bee baptized of thee and commest thou to me That kingly prophet Dauid was a man after gods own heart yet he saith of himselfe I was borne in iniquitie and in sin hath my mother conceiued mee Iob was called by God himselfe a iust and vpright man fearing God and eschewing euill whose peere was not found vppon the face of the earth notwithstanding all this he saith of himselfe who can bring a cleane thing out of filthines the which question is all one with Paules affirmation who saieth such as the roote is such are the braunches as if hee had said with Adam the father of vs all was vndefiled then are wee his sons cleane also But if he were once dead in sinne beeing our roote then howe could wee his imps haue life of our selues All this was spoken of originall sinne as for actuall sins namely those sins which we continuallie commit they are as palpable as the darknes of Aegipt the which as Moses saith was so grosse that it might be felt in so much that Dauid saith when God looked down from heauen vppon the children of men that is when hee considered mans conuersation they were all so farre gone out of the way that there was none that did good in so much that the prophet repeateth it with an Emphasis and saith no not one And the man of God Moses saith when God beheld the boldnes of the olde world in sinning it repēted him that he had made man that is he was sorie that man whome he had made to liue well should liue so ill The continuall sinne of Sodome brought fire and brimstone from heauen to consume them in the same Dauid feeling the burthen of his sinnes began to sincke vnder them for saith he my sins are gone ouer my head and are like a sore burthen too heauy for me to beare Paule hauing by the vertue of the law learned his sinnes for he had not knowen sin except the lawe had said thou shalt not sinne fell to lamenting of them thus O wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me from this bodie of death where it is to be noted that he calleth his bodie a bodie of death in respect of sinne which giueth power to death ouer our bodies And to conclude of such force is sinne in vs that if the goodnes of God had not so praeordained that the vnbeleeuing husband is sanctified by the beleeuing wife and the vnbeleeuing wife by the beleeuing husband our children should be verie vncleane Againe beeing washed or baptized in the name of the father sonne and holie Ghost wee are aduertised that wee must giue godlie christian and holy names vnto our children in in token of their sacred profession for holie is he that hath called vs and that we may be the more forward so to doe It will be worth our labour to consider of a few examples tending to the same purpose as of Zachary the father of Iohn the Baptist who being dum when that his son was born his friends made signes vnto him howe he would haue him called and askeing for writing tables writte saying his name is Iohn the which vvorde Iohn is as much as to say Grace and thus was Zacharie commaunded by the Angell to name him The scripture accordeth plentifull examples of those that haue giuen names to their children affoordeth to suche occasions as haue been offered in the time of their trauell As when Raell went with her husband Iacob toward Bethell to builde an aultar vnto God She trauailed in child-birth and in trauelling dyed but before shee departed shee called his name Benony that is the sonne of her sorrowe but his father Iacob called him Benony that is the sonne of his right hand So Leah hauing born to Iacob foure sons she said now will I prayse God c. And that shee might the better beare in minde her promise she named her last son Iudah